Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B. L. Wt. 847-450, Tobias Fernald, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass
Fernald, Tobias
B. L. W. 847-450.
CONTENTS

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The heirs of Lieut: Col d Fernald Massachusetts line —
Warrant issued Jan y : 8 th 1820
Hon: M. Hensley —

Commonwealth of Massachusetts County of Cumberland ss —
I Samuel Freeman Judge of the Court of Probate in and for said County of Cumberland, by satisfactory evi- dence having been produced to me, do hereby certify that Julia Lane, late Julia Fernald, is a reputed daughter and one of the legitimate heirs at law in real estate of Tobias Fernald late of Hittery in the County of York and State of Massachusetts deceased, who it is said was a Lieut Col in the tenth Regiment in the Massachusetts line in the Army of the United States in the revolutionary war —
Given under my hand and seal of office at Portland this ninth day of January in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and nineteen
Sam Freeman

I Julia Lane late Julia Female do swear that I am the reputed daughter & one of the legal heirs at Law of the late Ebenezer Female who was a Lieut. Col. of the South Massachusetts Regiment in the Revolutionary Army and that the claim to the land allowed by an act of Congress has not been alienated to my knowledge
Julia Lane
Hancock.
Subscribed and sworn to, this twenty seventh day of January A. D. 1819. Before me
Margaret Hemen, Jus. Peace

Hon J. C. Calhoun Esq. Secretary of War — : Washington

Hon. J. C. Calhoun Secretary of War
Buffalo Dec 29 1819
Sir Please to deliver to the Hon. Martin H. Kingsley Esq. the Warrant for for land bounty due my late father Tobias Farnall & sitting as Lieut Col in the late Revolutionary Army
Julia Farnall Heir

THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA IN CONGRESS ASSEMBLED
To Tobias Fernald Esquire
Greeting
We, Reposing special trust and confidence in your Patriotism, Valour, Conduct and Fidelity, DO by these presents constitute and appoint you to be Lieutenant Colonel of the Tenth Massachusetts Regiment, in the Army of the United States to take rank as such from the 6 th day of March 1779. You are therefore carefully and diligently to discharge the duty of a Lieutenant Colonel by doing and performing all manner of things therein belonging. And we do strictly charge and require all Officers and Soldiers under your command, to be obedient to your orders, as Lieutenant Colonel and you are to observe and follow such orders and directions, from time to time, as you shall receive from this, or a future Congress of the United States, or Committee of Congress for that purpose appointed, a Committee of the States or Commander in chief for the time being of the Army of the United States, or any other your Superior Officer, according to the rules and discipline of War, in pursuance of the trust reposed in you. This Commission to continue in force until revoked by this, or a future Congress, the Committee of Congress forementioned, or a Committee of the States.
Entered in the War Office and examined by the Board
Attest [Signature]
Secretary of the Board of War
Witness His Excellency Sam l Huntington Esq r President of the Congress of the United States of America, at Philadelphia the 18 th day of May 1781, and in the first year of our Independence.
[Signature]